Bill O'Reilly: Arrogance & Sleaze

Remember Bill "The Mouth" O'Reilly? It turns out that he's gotten mixed up in a scandal straight out of Danielle Steele. It turns out that he his wife, Maureen, was having an affair with a Nassau County Police Detective. It then turns out that O'Reilly tried to pull some strings with the Nassau county PD to retaliate against the Detective. It's all preliminary but just think about the implications? It seems that O'Reilly's status as an "opinion maker" makes him think he's either above the law, or that he can use it to his advantage.

Rick Perry: Stupid & Dangerous

It's funny how people continue to assume that "stupid" is somehow synonymous with harmless. The Presidency of GWB should remind us that stupid people can in fact do a great deal of harm when they set their minds to it. Texas governor Rick Perry has thrown his ten gallon hat into the ring. Perry in a recent speech in Bedford New Hampshire, declared that he doesn't "believe" in global warming and claimed that scientists are liars.

This raises some interesting questions. Does Perry believe in the theory of gravity?
Does he believe in the laws of mathematics? Perry by the way barely graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in "animal science."

Perry's appeal is based on the "Texas miracle;" about how Texas is supposedly creating jobs. In fact, Texas is stealing jobs from other states. While the big cities--Austin, Dallas, Houston-- may be booming in the Rio Grande valley you have people living in third world conditions. But don't expect the corporate media to point this out. If Chris Matthew and David Gregory develop man crushes on Perry, it's going to be downhill all the way.

The Plot Thickens and Sickens

New revelations keep appearing in the Murdoch scandals. Indications are that the Murdochs might have known about the phone hacking that was going on, in spite of their denials. Murdoch might have thought that all he had to do was throw underlings Coulson and Brooks to the dogs, but the scandal refuses to go away.

The thing about Murdoch is that he came to prominence proffering a phony populism. He made a big show of taking on the "establishment;" politicians, celebrities, the royal family. In reality, though, he was trying to gain influence with that very same establishment. The fakery went both ways of course. Conservatives who are constantly yammering about "values" and "principles" hitched their wagons to Rupert Murdoch, who has neither values nor principles.

Those Crazy Eyes

The big controversy over Michele Bachmann's picture on the cover of Newseek has brought cries of "media bias" and even "sexism". Which just goes to show what crybabies these rightists are. That Bachmann is horse faced and gimlet eyed is a question of heredity. In any case Newseek stopped being a "liberal" publication ages ago. If red is the color of the right then Newseek is carnation pink.

What's really scary about Bachmann are her positions. Bachmann is a "dominionist" who wants to impose her fundamentalist religion on everybody else. Her homophobia, anti-abortion, anti-education postitions are just part of a much scarier agenda.

Well, it's a scary situation. Obama is pretty much finished: the budget cutting deal will probably push the economy into a new recession. Which means that Obama and the Dems will be blown out in 2012. To such a degree that the GOP can nominate anybody and win.

Will it be Mitt Romney? We're supposed to think he's the "least objectionable" Repub although lately he's begun to sound like another corporation loving war monger. But then if an aggressive idiot like Rick Perry becomes President the question will be: do we move to Canada or Sweden?